Chapter 288: The Fourteenth Quest Borrell Wants to Live Forever 17
Lu Renbing's helper made it a lot easier, and it took about 3 months to move all the carriages. Fortunately, his area is big enough. There are enough supplies, and by the way, fourteen people were rescued, eight men and six women, a good ratio.
They are lucky, they are not missing arms or legs, and it is not easy to wait for rescue alive in such a cold and freezing place.
Lu Renbing has now become a tribal leader with twenty people, and except for Arthur and Yuna, everyone else worships Lu Renbing like a god. Whether the weather will pick up or not, Lu Renbing doesn't know, but this place must not stay for long, and must go south.
It is near the Arctic Circle, and even if the climate warms up in the future, it will not be suitable for human habitation. They searched the wagons for a large number of seeds of grain and vegetables, and also rescued dozens of cattle, sheep, pigs, rabbits, dogs, and cats, all of which were found in the breeding wagons.
If Lu Renbing hadn't found it in time, they would have all froze to death, and even if they didn't move, they would have died due to lack of food.
Lu Renbing found a large amount of feed in the breeding compartment and put thermal insulation measures on these animals. I saved them.
In one place, Lu Renbing found that the polar day here had passed, and darkness began to appear. According to common sense, there will be a polar night here in the near future, and if you don't see the sun for most of the year, you will die.
Therefore, it is necessary to migrate south, and in three months, Lu Renbing has already discovered the terrain within a radius of 100 miles. A route was preliminarily chosen. There is snow and ice everywhere, and it is best to travel with a sled.
Lu Renbing and the others, using the materials in their hands, made eight huge sleds, and made an insulated carriage on the sleigh to load supplies and rest.
In three months, everyone's strength has increased, and it is not a problem to pull a sleigh of several thousand catties in a group of two. Loaded with as much supplies and food as possible, the group began their journey south.
He can travel about fifty miles a day, and Lu Renbing is responsible for grasping the direction, exploring the way, and commanding. The rest, including Yuna and Arthur, had to pull the sled.
After five days of walking, the people left the valley and entered the ice field. There were many hidden cracks and ice caves along the way, many of which were not even discovered by Lu Renbing, and there were many dangers.
Fortunately, everyone got out of the valley smoothly, there was no map, no compass, and no markers. Lu Renbing can only determine his direction with the sun and his watch.
After more than 20 days of trekking, everyone finally saw the long-lost trees, which had left the Arctic ice sheet and entered the forest area.
The snow and ice have buried all the trees, leaving only the tops exposed, and the snow here is no longer as hard as the ice field. Many times, while walking, people and cars get stuck in the snow.
It is even more common to come across trees buried under the snow. At first, bare ground was rare, but gradually intact conifers began to be seen on some hillside highlands, but most of them died. You can see the rocks, too.
After stumbling for four or five months, the food prepared in the polar regions had long since been eaten, and only the seeds were left. Along the way, I relied on collecting frozen animals and picking up pine cones to finally get out of the vast forest.
The temperature is starting to rise, but it's still minus 12 degrees. Lu Renbing estimated this direction, and estimated that he had probably walked to the Siberian region, because he saw some scattered villages and towns, and the text on them was in Russian.
He spoke good Russian, while repairing in a small town. He and the others made a great effort to clean up the entire town and gather supplies. Found quite a few useful things. Among them, in the town's office, I found a few maps, and thanks to the cold weather, the food was barely edible.
The map is not fully weathered either, and Lu Renbing must now decide which direction he should go now, whether to continue south, through the Mongolian plateau, into China. Or head west over the Ural Mountains and into Europa.
Nobody knows. Where is suitable for human survival, and I don't know where there are still people who survive. After thinking about it carefully for a long time, Lu Renbing still decided to go south, he was more familiar with the terrain over there. It's just that he completely forgot that he was now wearing a European and American face.
It is not advisable to cross the Mongolian plateau directly, which was not very populated before the cataclysm. If you wear it directly, they may not even be able to dig up frozen animals. Or go east, and then cross the Outer Khing'an Mountains and enter Huaxia, where there are dense populations, villages, and towns.
If you dig around, you might find something to eat. You might even run into a surviving human. If there is one person in the world who is most likely to survive this catastrophe, it must be Huaxia Northeast Silver. No way, this is Lu Renbing's impression.
Sure enough, as soon as he entered Huaxia, Lu Renbing saw the surviving humans. First there were large herds of live reindeer, and then shepherds in thick leather coats and hats. They are Evenks, who lived in the icy jungle all year round before the catastrophe, and lived as nomads.
Although modern society has caused most people to abandon the traditional safari life. But there are always those who still cling to tradition. It is this tradition that has allowed them to survive.
They were not in good condition, the continuous wind and snow, froze to death many reindeer, the lack of food, and starved to death many deer. Fortunately, they found a huge cave where they survived with great difficulty.
Their living environment is very fragile, and the slightest change could make them face the catastrophe of extinction. Lu Renbing asked them if they would follow him to the south. The older people all shook their heads and refused. There were only four young people, who were unwilling to wait for death here, and followed Lu Renbing on the journey to the south.
The old man of the tribe did not stop them, but gave them a lot of venison.
Seeing the living people made the morale of the whole team start to rise. They are not the only survivors. These poorly equipped shepherds were able to survive, and there were certainly people in other areas who would be alive.
The further south and warmer it is, the better the chances of people surviving. Although there is ice and snow everywhere, Lu Renbing's confidence is getting stronger and stronger. Lu Renbing found a transportation map in a small Chinese town. The average snow here is more than three meters, but many road signs can still be seen. As you follow the road, you will speed up a lot, and you will encounter many villages and towns along the way. After careful cleaning, it was found that very few people had frozen to death here.
Perhaps when the disaster came, people had already moved in advance. Lu Renbing thought of the tradition of the Chinese people. In the face of any disaster, people always choose to fight collectively rather than fight individually, as in the Western world. Perhaps the surviving population of the Chinese people in this disaster is far beyond his imagination.
With this thought, he searched for a war grain depot according to the map and saw that the war war grain depot was empty. I saw the last date recorded in the office log was August 2015, a year after the disaster.
In other words, after the disaster, the grain depot was still in operation, and it was not until a year later that the grain here was transferred to an unknown place.